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AenderF

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CSS solution preventing Microsoft Edge Browser showing the Visual Search.
Posted: 20 Dec 23, 11:36
 
Microsoft Edge have recently added a new hover icon (visual search) to all images over a certain size on a webpage. The user can remove it in Edge settings, but I'm looking for a CSS solution to prevent this icon from showing when hovering over an img tag in my albums. Googling, I found the following coding which is successfully disabling this feature from server side: img { pointer-events: none }
Do I miss some additional coding or is this the correct coding to put under Advanced/Custom code/CSS ?
Would it be possible to add such an option under Site Admin ?
Thanks in advance for your response.
JeffTucker

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Re: CSS solution preventing Microsoft Edge Browser showing the Visual Search.
Posted: 20 Dec 23, 16:03   in response to: AenderF in response to: AenderF
 
That CSS is a sledgehammer. It will also disable things like Javascript actions on some navigation icons.

From the discussions I see online, there's no good way for a site owner to disable this Edge behavior.

But there have certainly been a lot of complaints about it. Owners of sites that sell photographs, for example, have observed that what this is doing is luring customers away from their sites, and showing them where they can obtain similar photos for free. I can't believe that this "feature" is going to remain enabled by default for too much longer. Not even Microsoft could be this pigheaded.
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